World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1998 ; Volume 19 No. 1, Year 1998 Table of Contents: Point of View ; TheRights of the Patient in Art Therapy

By Laurenf Sch Weizer

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Title:	World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1998 ; Volume 19 No. 1, Year 1998 Table of Contents: Point of View ; TheRights of the Patient in Art Therapy
Author:	Laurenf Sch Weizer
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Artistic activities are widely used in mental health care for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The art produced in this process is often recognized as a valuable commodity in its own right, and this raises questions of ownership, self-determination, privacy, respect and psychic integrity. Almost everything seems to have been written about the relationship between insanity and artistic creation. Almost everything and hardly anything, in fact, since this theme has been explored mainly by psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, philosophers or art historians, rather than the artists themselves. It is rare for people whose mental health is severely impaired to try and describe the supposed correlations between their pathology and their works of art. It may perhaps be argued either that the production of those works is enough for them. or that their indifference to nosographic terminology has kept them from engaging in any explicit discussion of the immense power of their imagination, their extraordinary sensorial receptivity or their prodigious memory.

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